The King of Qin has no intention of mobilizing troops against Qi in the short term. The unification of Qin is certain. Qi is definitely not Qin's opponent. Rather than eagerly annexing Qi, what Ying Zheng cares more about is to govern the country well.
The occupied areas became the land of the Qin State, establishing an unprecedented prosperous age that his father said. In the past few years, the Qin State has continuously used troops against various countries, and the shortcomings of the military merit system have begun to be exposed.
The Qin State captured the southern areas of Yan and Chu, which resulted in the emergence of many military nobles. These people needed to be rewarded with land. When they attacked Yan previously, the troops came from all over the country, mostly from newly conquered lands.
In the newly conquered land, Qin could redistribute the land and fulfill its reward promise. However, when it attacked Chu, the land within the six kingdoms had been distributed, and it could only use Chu's land to reward them.
As mentioned before, the southeastern region of Chu State is very scary. It is a barbaric and barren land... The land here is given to the fighting soldiers and allowed to settle here. Is this a reward or a punishment?
What? This operation was the problem that the Yan State encountered at the beginning. There was no land to reward, and it cost up to 500,000 soldiers to attack the Chu State. These people had to be rewarded, and the land was simply not enough.
Fortunately, Lu Buwei had previously carried out transitional reforms and reduced the rewards for lower-level titles. Otherwise, after this battle, Qin's army would most likely collapse, because unfulfilled promises are often more irritating than non-promises. Li Si
In order to collect the reward for these 500,000 troops, it can be said that Li Si almost died from exhaustion. If it were still Lu Buwei, the old man might have died on the document before finishing it.
Li Si's performance convinced Ying Zheng that his choice was correct. Qin State currently needs to do a lot of things. At this time, compared to strategists and theorists, it is pragmatists like Li Si who can play the best role.
The Qin State needs a period of time to cultivate itself. Years of wars have had a huge impact on the country. Farming and mulberry cultivation are the foundation of the Qin State and cannot be delayed because of wars.
After all, today's Qin State is not farming for the sake of war, but fighting for the sake of farming. These are two different concepts, which are also the new future of Qin proposed by Zhao Kuo. After hearing Gan Luo's words, King Qin
He laughed, looked at Li Si not far away, shook his head and said, "Qi has actually started mobilizing? If Qin doesn't send troops, what will they do? Will they keep guarding?"
"King Qi, let's discuss this matter slowly." King Qin said and asked Gan Luo to leave. Gan Luo was a little unwilling. He really didn't do anything when he went to Qi this time.
It's not that he didn't want to do it, but Hou Sheng didn't let him interfere at all... After Gan Luo left, Li Si just said: "Actually, we can send troops to Qi." Ying Zheng narrowed his eyes and said: "It's okay to send troops, but
Is now the best time?"
"By capturing the State of Qi, there will be only one king in the world... At that time, we can make changes and implement various systems with peace of mind. In addition, the State of Qi is rich... Marquis Wu Cheng wants to do many things,
But he suffers from lack of money and food... After taking over Qi State, Qi State's grain reserves and the property of the subsequent victory are enough for Marquis Wu Cheng to do things." Li Si's idea is to quickly get rid of Qi State, and then manage various places with peace of mind.
, solve all problems at once.
Ying Zheng suddenly felt that what Li Si said made sense.
According to what his father said, the current measures are to prevent the disease from getting worse, but not to cure it. If you want to cure the disease, you still have to be the king of the world. Ying Zheng thought for a moment and asked: "Should Hou Sheng
Could he be deceiving Qin? What if he marches along the route he gave and encounters an ambush from Qi?" Li Si couldn't help but laugh. He shook his head and said: "
If Hou Sheng really had such insight and courage, then Qi would not have watched other countries collapse."
Under Li Si's persuasion, Ying Zheng chose to believe in Hou Sheng. He wanted to find a general to destroy Qi. After thinking for a long time, Ying Zheng focused on three young generals. The first one was Meng Tian.
Meng Tian had shown extremely high talent in the previous wars, and Zhao Kuo said that he would be the future Great Wall of Qin. You know, it is already the greatest honor to be evaluated like this by Zhao Kuo.
He is also a native of Qi, and his eldest father Meng Ao fled from Qi. Therefore, their family still retains the customs of Qi. They all speak Qi language and the culture of Qi is relatively clear. Another
The young general is Wang Ben, the son of General Wang Jian. Although he does not show the same talent as Meng Tian, he is really stable. Just like his father, he fights slowly, extremely steadily, and does not allow any breakthroughs.
Zhao Kuo commented that he was like his father. He had been on the battlefield for a long time. Among the second-generation generals in the Qin State, he was the second-highest in nobility and was already capable of serving as a general. If he came to serve as the commander-in-chief, Ying Zheng would of course
You can rest assured. The last one is Li Xin. Li Xin is brave and fierce in battle. He is known as Xiaoqijie... Zhao Kuo commented that he is a general who is good at attacking... Ying Zheng also likes this young general very much and wants to
Train him to take over Wang Jian's position and become Zhao Kang's best helper in the future.
Ying Zheng thought about it again and again, and decided to appoint Wang Ben as his general, and let Meng Tian and Li Xin assist him. He used soldiers from Wei and Chu to form an army of 150,000, and directly attacked the royal city of Qi. These major events, Zhao Kuo
Little did they know that Zhao Kuo is currently busy revising the military merit system. It can be said that he is very busy. At the same time, Zhao Kang has taken a vacation and came back to visit his old father.
Because of the distance, Zhao Kang had one holiday every year to go home and visit his parents. Not only Zhao Kang, but also the officials of Qin State. They rested according to the month. If the distance was too far, then they rested according to the year.
Rest, Qin's system is still relatively humane. Zhao Kang hurried back to Xianyang, holding his son excitedly, while Xiu kept twisting his body and pulling his beard, and Zhao Kang couldn't help but laugh.
laughing out loud.
Zhao Kuo did not want to disturb their family reunion, so he conceived the post-war system alone.
Zhao Kuo felt that after the world was at peace, the military merit system would at least be divided into several levels. First of all, the military merit system could be regarded as a kind of rank. You can gain rank and change your destiny through combat. This kind of system will be used in peacetime.
Make reasonable changes. First of all, it is to separate the titles of fighting generals and local officials. Because in war, all the people are soldiers, so officials and officers serve concurrently. However, in the future, Qin will definitely develop a standing army, and officials will also
It is no longer the same as an officer.
What's more, when there is peace everywhere in the future, it will not be appropriate for officers who only know how to fight to serve as officials.
Therefore, the classification of levels must be clear. The military merit level of officers can be like the military rank. Different officers have different titles from sergeant to Chehou, and different treatment will be given according to the different military ranks. This can not only ensure combat effectiveness, but also ensure the combat effectiveness.
It can also clarify the superiors and subordinates... As for local officials, the first thing that Zhao Kuo thought of was the later nine-grade system. From the ninth grade to the first grade, they increased in sequence. This was the level of officials.
In addition to soldiers and officials, there are also today's students. After the Qin Dynasty, there will be more and more students. So what is the level of students? Later there were levels such as Tongsheng, Xiucai, and Jinshi, and of course there will be more in the future.
Should there be a hierarchy for bachelors, masters, craftsmen, and farmers? Zhao Kuo had a lot to think about and even more to do.
If titles are banned among the people and turned into military ranks, and ordinary people can only get titles by joining the army, it means that the way for people to climb up will change. Such changes can only be changed through education. Why is Zhao Kuo so anxious?
Education, this is the reason. If there is no education as a way, and the military merit system has become unique to standing soldiers, what should ordinary people who cannot participate in the war do?
They need to climb up through education, and through their excellent grades, go all the way to university...obtain a bachelor's "title", and then participate in politics or do other things. Many of Zhao Kuo's previous actions were not whims, but
Preparations for postwar unification. On the original historical line, the Western Han Dynasty wanted to make some changes when faced with the military merit system.
First, the Western Han Dynasty adopted the three-elder system of filial piety and filial piety, and established an official selection system such as filial piety and incorruptibility on the basis of which to free officials from war. Later, they established Taixue and Chinese studies to allow the common people to have other things besides war.
In order to climb up the ranks, and realizing the impact of the military merit system, the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty simplified the twenty-level titles, making them fewer. At the same time, they continued to reward the common people with titles for various reasons.
Many people believe that the fatuous kings of the Western Han Dynasty destroyed the military merit system by randomly awarding titles. Well, the emperor who randomly awarded titles was Emperor Wen. The fatuous Emperor continued to award the most basic titles to new-born children in the country, and finally
The streets are full of people with titles, making the lower-level titles completely unattractive and destroying the foundation of the military merit system. At the same time, he has increased the methods for obtaining high-level titles, making generals go all over the world to fight against the Huns in order to obtain high-level titles.
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Of course, this does not prevent those smart people from criticizing the behavior of these foolish kings.
Zhao Kuo now wants to go even further in advance, expand the scope of education, make the road from the bottom to the top more open, dig out the war from Qin's body, and let the war machine of Qin get rid of its dependence on war.
The things Zhao Kuo is doing are related to Qin's affairs for hundreds of years in the future, and even major events that will affect the course of China for thousands of years in the future, but Zhao Kuo doesn't seem to notice this.
What he wanted was very simple, to bring peace to the world.
Zhao Kuo was busy in the study. Suddenly, someone knocked on the courtyard door. A young retainer came to report that there was a distinguished guest. This young retainer was called Zhongshu Ge. He was Di's son.
It's Pi. He said he named his child this name to commemorate his friend. Zhao Kuo felt that he enjoyed the feeling of calling his father like that more. Zhao Kuo has always been disgusted with slavery.
After he came to Qin, he repeatedly proposed the abolition of slavery. Under his prestige, Qin was forced to make some changes, including abolishing the punishment regulations that sentenced criminals to slaves and stipulating that retainers were not equal to slaves.
Regarding slaves, retainers had an employment relationship with the family owner, and slaves were not required as a reward in the military merit system. Because of Zhao Kuo's influence, many nobles voluntarily freed their slaves and allowed them to farm freely.
Ying Zheng was worried about his father's safety, so he set up some official positions, such as Chehou's family minister, which were simply the private officials and personal nannies of Chehou's family... Zhao Kuo felt that this was unnecessary and was just Ying Zheng's.
His attitude was too determined, and he had no choice. In the end, Zhongshu Ge passed the examination and successfully served as the Prime Minister of Chehou's family, and served as Zhao Kuo's assistant in Zhao Kuo's mansion.
Zhao Kuo put down what he was doing and asked Ge to invite the guests in. There were quite a few guests, seven or eight of them, most of whom were women. Zhao Kuo was even more surprised until he saw Meng among the guests.
Wu, he seemed to understand something, and his heart sank. Meng Wu brought his family to visit Zhao Kuo, but Zhao Kuo asked them to sit down very gently, and asked Ge to bring them food and drink.
Everyone sat down to chat with Zhao Kuo, and Meng Wu introduced his family members to Zhao Kuo one by one.
Soon, Zhao Kang and Yun also arrived. Yun helped entertain the female guests, while Zhao Kang squinted his eyes and looked warily at the boy in the distance, Meng Yi. Meng Yi sat in the last seat,
His forehead was covered with sweat, he was trembling, and he was extremely nervous. He didn't dare to raise his head to look at Zhao Kuo and Zhao Kang. Zhao Kuo chatted with them for a while, and Meng Wu stated his purpose. Meng Wu said seriously: "I
I heard that you have a daughter in your family who is very virtuous... I also have a child, although she is not a child..."
Zhao Kuo looked at him in surprise. He was still so young, why did he come to propose marriage?
Shan, who was helping to serve tea and pour water, turned red with shame, lowered his head and ran away. Zhao Kuo looked at his daughter in a daze. In his eyes, Shan seemed to be only five or six years old, with a plump body.
, also at that moment, Shan suddenly grew up and turned into a young girl... So, my daughter is already this old?
Zhao Kuo was a little surprised. He looked at Meng Wu in front of him. Meng Wu said a lot more, but Zhao Kuo couldn't hear clearly. Zhao Kuo never liked to interfere with the choices made by his children. He would try his best to satisfy them.
He is not willing to delay the happiness of his children despite his children's demands... As long as Shan is willing, Zhao Kuo will not say anything. Zhao Kuo stood up, looked at Meng Wu in front of him, and said tremblingly
: "Please wait for me."
Zhao Kuo left the inner room and walked into the other room. He looked at Shan who was waiting for the news. Shan was even more shy in front of his father and did not dare to look at him.
"Child... you have grown up. I want to listen to your own opinion on this matter. If you are willing, I will agree... If you are not willing, no one can force you..."
"I agree!" Shan said, seeming to realize that something was wrong, and hurriedly lowered his head.
Zhao Kuo laughed, nodded and said, "Okay, as long as you agree..."
"Let's do what you said in this matter." Zhao Kuo looked at Meng Wu in front of him and agreed to his request. Meng Wu was very happy. He didn't expect that, just like that, he and Zhao Kuo became friends.
After marrying his in-laws, Zhao Kang stared indifferently at Meng Yi in the distance. While everyone was laughing and celebrating, he stepped forward and grabbed his collar, "Come out with me, I have something to tell you.
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Although Meng Yi was scared, he still had the courage to follow Zhao Kang out.
Just as he walked out of the inner room, Zhao Kang wrapped his arms around his neck, gritted his teeth, and said extremely seriously: "If you dare to make Shan sad...even just once...I will kill you."